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ccMixter: A Collaborative Music Community
by Creative Commons Open Culture post
Back in 2004, ccMixter.org was born when Creative Commons and Wired magazine collaborated to support communities engaged in remixing openly-licensed and public domain music. As it has evolved over the years, ccMixter has become an independent project that supports musicians and creators working in remix culture, connecting them with each other and their fans. To…
Training: Open Licenses for Artists, Musicians and Creators
by Jennryn Wetzler Licenses & Tools post
Curious about Creative Commons licenses? Join Creative Commons staff for an overview of the six CC licenses and two public domain tools. We will describe the CC license and tool elements, their legal, machine-readable, and human-readable layers, as well as show practical use cases for each of the licenses and tools. Participants will engage in…
Open Minds Podcast: Damien Riehl & Noah Rubin of All The Music
by Ony Anukem About CC post
Hello Creative Commoners! We are back with a brand new episode of CC’s Open Minds … from Creative Commons podcast. In this episode, we sat down with programmer, musician, and copyright attorney, Damien Riehl, and fellow musician and programmer, Noah Rubin—the creators of the All The Music project. Frustrated by accidental copyright infringement lawsuits stifling…
Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive
by Ony Anukem About CC post
Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons in 2022. In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and “Chief of Noise” of the online music business Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is a music community that connects…
The staff of music is long, but it bends towards harmony: An interview with the authors of Theft! A History of Music
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture post
Meticulously researched and incredibly entertaining, Theft explores 2,000 years of musical history, from Plato’s admonition that “musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state” to the recent “Blurred Lines” case – and everything in between.
Openscore’s plans to liberate sheet music
by Peter Jonas Open Culture post
OpenScore is a new crowdsourcing initiative that aims to digitize classical sheet music by composers whose works are in the public domain, like Mozart and Beethoven.
Just make music and share it: Podington Bear’s music for storytelling and podcasts
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture post
In 2007, the artist Chad Crouch began releasing three instrumental songs per week under the pseudonym Podington Bear. Crouch revealed his identity in July 2008 upon the release of a box set of his work, ending a speculative mystery covered in NPR, KEXP, Wired, and the Globe and Mail. According to his bio on Free…
Reviving archives through remix: How a Dutch archival project is reinvigorating electronic music
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture post
What does it mean to listen to the past through a truly modern lens? This is the question the Dutch project re:vive seeks to answer.
Musician Marisa Anderson looks for the new in the old
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture, Uncategorized post
I have been a fan of Marisa Anderson’s music since discovering her albums at the legendary Chapel Hill radio station WXYC, where my show usually ran from from 4-8AM. At 4 in the morning in a windowless studio, the title of Anderson’s 2011 release “The Golden Hour” seemed apropos. I would listen to her virtuosic,…
“It’s music for the people”: Monk Turner on defying genre and the open community
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture post
Monk Turner is a concept musician who has benefitted greatly from his collaborative, collective approach to music making and performance.